[PyQt] Text "write on" effect

[Wilbert Berendsen]

Op Mon, 27 Feb 2012 17:02:01 -0800 (PST)
JPolk <jpolk5001 at yahoo.com> schreef:

> 
> okay, this may seem a bit superfluous, but would be a very nice
> animation effect to have in one's toolbox..
> 
> For those that don't know what a "write on" animation is,...you
> probably see them on TV everyday,..
> but it's when a whole sentence is displayed a character at time, with
> just a fraction of a second delay
> in-between each character...
> 
> Thought this would be trivial at first,...but there's something going
> on in Qt that senses there's about to
> be a bunch of fast updates, so it waits until everything is done and
> updates *once*, which defeats the
> purpose....
> 
> Here's how the madness unfolds,..
> 
> text = "Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetuer adipiscing elit, sed
> diam nonummy nibh euismod tincidunt ut laoreet"
> 
> accum = QString("")
> 
>  for i in range(0, len(text)):
>          accum = accum + text[i]
>          self.label.setText(accum)
>          self.label.update()
>          sleep(.1)
> 
> So, I accumulate the string char by char calling update() and sleep()
> at each interval,...a button triggers this function.
> But instead of seeing the effect progress as expected, it just
> display the whole string at once...
> Anybody got any ideas how to achieve this effect ?

the sleep function causes the main thread (GUI thread) to be blocked,
so the widget is not repainted. It only repaints when the for-loop has
terminated, and thus shows the full string at once.

A solution would be to use a timer that regularly updates the label text
(attached).


-- 
Wilbert Berendsen
(http://www.wilbertberendsen.nl)

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